[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> This is not networking in the IP sense, but:
>
> I would like to access a router over a null modem serial cable. I
> have done this using minicom and the like, but I wonder if there is a
> more straightforward way. I'd love to be able to do it from within an
> emacs buffer. I would also like to use a perl script to talk to the
> router over the null modem serial cable.
Sheeesh, emacs is nice for reading mail, and other jobs that require
editing. But for configuring routers... this is certainly the first
time I am hearing something like this.
Seriously now. There should be some programs that provide you with a
"raw" connection over a serial line. But minicom works fine for me, and
a couple of friends that use it as the console of several CISCO routers.
> What is the easiest way to do this?
In perl-talk, this would be something like:
open(STDIN, "</dev/modem");
open(STDOUT, ">/dev/modem");
and you're ready to use standard "print" and "<STDIN>" statements to
play with your modem.
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Giorgos Keramidas, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]
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